The Sheltering Sky

Winger is especially fine in her portrayal of a woman who travles from New York with her husband to the North African desert accompanied by a mutual male friend. The journey takes a few unpredictable turns. The scenery and peek into... Full review

Here's a formula for a movie that is guaranteed to get critical acclaim. Have it in some exotic land. Be sure to show lots of long shots of the people and places there for no reason. Then throw together a bunch... Full review

I saw this movie a couple of years ago, and had forgotten its title, but the images have kept coming to my mind since then. When I wanted to recommend the movie, i would describe it to people and they would... Full review

Bernardo Bertolucci co-wrote and directed the film of the classic post WW2 novel by author, Paul Bowles, who also narrates. The opening shot (after the credits roll over 1947 New York City and a ship disembarks from its port) is... Full review

At some point in the last 100 years.....there is one film that is likely to stand out as truly exceptional. Not surprisingly, such a film might not be well received by the critics or even be a great success at... Full review

Bernardo Bertolucci's film is, without a doubt... long. In fact, this length almost drowns a perfectly good film. However, this is a fine adaptation of Paul Bowles' book (The author is wonderful as the narrator as well). Debra Winger and John... Full review

"The Sheltering Sky" is a road movie and a love story… Its real subject is very simple: Is it possible for two people to share the same dream and to exist as a couple? It's a simple story of two... Full review

This is one of my all time favorite movies. But... and this is a major but... at least part of my appreciation stems from the fact that I watched it several times and that I've also read the book (by... Full review

Port and Kit Moresby are travellers who come to North Africa to spend a year or so. With them travels a friend, George Tunner. Their journey hides the gradual breakdown of their relationship - a fact that is only highlighted... Full review

Magnificent scenery of No.Afr. is wasted on a poorly enacted drama.A couple travel abroad to escape the boredom ennui of 1920's Amer. They enmesh themselves in the native lifestyles,ala Great gastby,and test their moreal and mortal limits,tho it seems they have... Full review

True, the pictures are very pretty.... ... Full Review

Bernardo Bertolucci is one of the great film directors, but when he stumbles, boy he really falls. The Sheltering Sky was filmed in Algeria, Niger, and Morocco in 1989, and I hope the film provided a better vacation for the actors than it did for the characters they play. ... Full Review

Neither can the Italian director Bernardo Bertolucci in his frustrating, monotonously obscure movie version. Unfortunately, the movie is just as difficult to get at The scenes are listless and dramatically inert. Winger seems stiff and inhibited ... Full Review

It's also about a clash of cultures, yet The Sheltering Sky is too intimate....indeed dreams, which for Bertolucci have always been signposts towards psychological significance, introduce the story's first moment of discord.....As with Last Tango In Paris , in which the great Italian director probed the nether regions of a relationship in which sex was an expression of -.... ... Full Review

Paul Bowles's first and best novel, "The Sheltering Sky," published 60 years ago this fall, was a book few saw coming. Its author was better known as a composer. ... Full Article

A novel of paranoiacs with real enemies A Review by Stephen Murray 08/01/2003 The composer-turned-writer Paul Bowles (1910-1999) is more famous as the iconic American expatriate in Tangie (at once a refuge and a host to visiting writers, particularly during... ... Full Article

No one who's ever read a movie review by Pauline Kael could be neutral about her, and for her legions of fans and foes the announcement last week that she was giving up her movie column in The New Yorker... ... Full Article

There's a silent, prolonged crashing going on in "The Sheltering Sky."It's a feature-length collision between Paul Bowles's existentially bleak novel of 1949 and director Bernardo Bertolucci's rhapsodic interpretation. ... Full Article

"I don't want to be in a movie where $40m is behind "kind of a good idea". If you're an actor, that will not sustain you." ... Full Article

From director Bernardo Bertolucci , The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to... ... Full Article